Live Play Data

Shadowspear

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3976

Decks Running

1786

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=781

19%

12%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 19% (148 / 781 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 62%

The "good card" funnel

3977 brought · 1291 players

Brought to game

3977

Ever drawn

947

Reached battlefield

781

Still on board at game end

621

Once cast, 80% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=696) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2534).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=144).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.3pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1040 instances

2.8%

Library

59.7%

Battlefield

20.2%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 83 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 78 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 52 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 52 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 43 decks
6 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 34 decks
7 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 28 decks
8 Wolverine, Best There Is 25 decks
9 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 24 decks
10 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 22 decks

Card text

Shadowspear

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}

: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.